I work in the Akron, OH area and the largest union hospital usually sets the pay and benifit scale. When they negotiate a new contract with higher pay and benefits the other hospitals in the area...
The real reason for going by seniority is so that the managers can't pick from their buddy list or just go with the biggest suckup, ignoring better qualified people with more time and experience....
bhacken replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor
This happened to one of my fellow female students in clinicals. She was doing peri care on a 400+ lb male patient in his 20's. He was standing up while she washed his bottom half and after she...